More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

Maurice Saatchi

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Alexander Payne

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the school-masters of ever afterward.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Rebecca West

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

David Suzuki

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

Steve Maraboli

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

Annie Dillard

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

Oscar Wilde

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Lydia Maria Child

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Samuel Richardson

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Cynthia Weil